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29.2.1 zipimporter Objects 
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  <td><nobr><b><span class="typelabel">class</span>&nbsp;<tt id='l2h-5389' xml:id='l2h-5389' class="class">zipimporter</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var>archivepath</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
<dd> 
  Create a new zipimporter instance. <var>archivepath</var> must be a path to
  a zipfile.  <tt class="exception">ZipImportError</tt> is raised if <var>archivepath</var>
  doesn't point to a valid ZIP archive.
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  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-5390' xml:id='l2h-5390' class="method">find_module</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var>fullname</var><big>[</big><var>, path</var><big>]</big><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
<dd>
  Search for a module specified by <var>fullname</var>. <var>fullname</var> must be
  the fully qualified (dotted) module name. It returns the zipimporter
  instance itself if the module was found, or <tt class="constant">None</tt> if it wasn't.
  The optional <var>path</var> argument is ignored--it's there for 
  compatibility with the importer protocol.
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  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-5391' xml:id='l2h-5391' class="method">get_code</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var>fullname</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
<dd>
  Return the code object for the specified module. Raise
  <tt class="exception">ZipImportError</tt> if the module couldn't be found.
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  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-5392' xml:id='l2h-5392' class="method">get_data</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var>pathname</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
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  Return the data associated with <var>pathname</var>. Raise <tt class="exception">IOError</tt>
  if the file wasn't found.
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  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-5393' xml:id='l2h-5393' class="method">get_source</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var>fullname</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
<dd>
  Return the source code for the specified module. Raise
  <tt class="exception">ZipImportError</tt> if the module couldn't be found, return
  <tt class="constant">None</tt> if the archive does contain the module, but has
  no source for it.
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  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-5394' xml:id='l2h-5394' class="method">is_package</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var>fullname</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
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  Return True if the module specified by <var>fullname</var> is a package.
  Raise <tt class="exception">ZipImportError</tt> if the module couldn't be found.
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  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-5395' xml:id='l2h-5395' class="method">load_module</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
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  Load the module specified by <var>fullname</var>. <var>fullname</var> must be the
  fully qualified (dotted) module name. It returns the imported
  module, or raises <tt class="exception">ZipImportError</tt> if it wasn't found.
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